Tuesday, February 10, 2015

In
this beautiful World, people use ‘smileys’ in almost all their communication –
there are some who do not smile !! A smiley (sometimes simply
called a happy or smiling face) is a stylized representation of a smiling
humanoid face, an important part of popular culture. The classic form designed
in 1963 comprises a yellow circle with two black dots representing eyes and a
black arc representing the mouth. Heard
somewhere - "If you see someone without a smile today, give them yours" …… a smile [sirippu] costs
nothing, yet could change the way people look at you.

A smile is not
simply the facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the
sides of the mouth. It is the display of one’s happiness and attitude. In the civil society, smile is considered to
be an expression denoting pleasure, sociability, happiness, or amusement.

About a
couple of years ago, a study in NewsOnline stated that the average adult
manages just seven smiles a day – and at least one is probably false !!! It
found even the most cheerful of us smile only 11 times a day, while the
grumpiest produce just one. The poll of 2,000 adults found the 51 per cent of
us who admit to a daily false smile reserve it for our bosses. Despite our
relative unwillingness to smile, we love receiving them. The study found nearly
a quarter of us revel in a smile from a lover, and around a fifth in one from
our children or another family member.

The study
further states - sometimes, we just can’t help smiling. One in five of those
polled for the toothpaste company BlanX admitted they had smiled
inappropriately at a funeral, and almost half during a heated argument. BlanX
spokesperson said: 'When our lover flashes us a big, bright white, toothy smile
it just melts our hearts, our research has found. 'We love smiles from our kids and family too
but it is when the one we love breaks out into a smile that we just can’t help
but get all gooey.

'We don’t
smile as much as we thought the UK would, an average of seven and a half times
each every day. That’s not a lot when you think about how many people we come
in contact with every day. 'The one
thing that did come out of the survey though, is that a genuine, big smile from
someone we care about has the power to transform our day no matter what kind of
mood we are in.' If this is UK way, is India any different or do you think Indians are
better in smiling ?

‘Siri’ is an application for Apple Inc.'s iOS which
works as a personal assistant and knowledge navigator. The application uses a
natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and
perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. The name Siri
is Scandinavian, a short form of the Norse name Sigrid meaning
"beauty" and "victory", and comes from the intended name
for the original developer's first child.